I need some help! I'm so danged dumb that I can't even get mod_perl to work correctly on my box. Sigh!!!!

I've spent three days now and perl scripts will run under cgi-bin but when I try to use ModPerl::Registry everything goes to heck in a hand basket! Where can I go to get some help on this? I've read for three days now and I know it may have something to do with my perl @INC looking everywhere BUT in the Apache2 subdirectory. I'm so lost - so close - but so lost.

Any suggestions?

Mandrake 10.1 Apache 2 ModPerl 2 Perl 5.8.5

I've modified the httpd.conf file until I've been ready to be sick - no other files were modified. I think I'm not smart enough to even know if there IS another file to modify!